Book Review Essay

Hunger of Memory is an autobiographical piece of literature that highlights a bilingual’s inner struggle to find his place in society. In the book, author Richard Rodriguez has an open discussion, debating and evaluating different perspectives while also sharing his opinions on individuality and separateness. Torn between two cultures, bilingual speakers struggle to find their place within the education system and the local American english-speaking community. In Hunger of Memory, Richard…

is about using affective learning and leadership to channel talents of our gifted children. The book says, "The characteristics of affective learning are gifted students ' self-concepts, personal and social adjustment, educational and career motivation, and values and moral thinking"(Davis, 171). Self-concept is important for all gifted children. Self-concept has several parts of development. The book says that students need to feel capable and confident, and this will lead to higher…

Demonic Males was a revolutionary book at the time of its publishing. The book’s primary thesis is that male violence is not purely a function of society, but has long-standing genetic roots. At the time, when edenic views of human nature were still en vogue, and the “state of grace” still dominated psychological thinking, Wrangham’s book challenged people to look deeper at the origins of violence to find the evolutionary cause. Twenty years later, the thesis of the book seems intuitive, and…

In 1999, Daniel Simons and Chris Chabris published a book titled the Invisible Gorilla after years of research in their field of psychology. The book focused on an unfamiliar concept; the illusions of our everyday lives. Simons and Chablis discussed several illusions, including the illusion of memory (Simons & Chabris, 2011). Throughout the book, the two emphasize the concerns that falling prey to these illusions can create. The illusion of memory encompasses the disconnect between how we think…

silenced group in the book 1984. The book was written by George Orwell, and published in 1949. The task refers to part 4, the studied literature part of the English Language and Literature course - Power and Privilege - and comprises of the various cultural, social and historical contexts belonging to the novel. While playing a relatively minor role in the novel, the proletarians (Proles) constitute the vast majority of the population of Oceania. The main focus of the book is what happens…

This book gave the women a voice to explain what it was like to live before, during, and after the genocide. The story of a women named Muska shows what it was like to be taken away on the trucks because of the removal of the Bosniak people. She describes how…

behind why we make the decisions we do. The book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely explores how we make decisions. Dan Ariely is a Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. In addition, he founded the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and is the author of multiple books (Ariely). Ariely uses the concept of behavioral economics to help prove how decisions are made. He aims to answer: What influences our decisions? In the book, Predictably Irrational, Ariely explains how…

Elizabeth Edman is a queer priest. She is also a priestly queer. It is from the perspective of these intertwined and inseparable identities that her new book (on sale tomorrow, May 17), Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press, $25.95), challenges Christians to embrace queerness and to boldly proclaim a faith that “is and must be queer” (3). Of course Edman doesn’t mean that straight Christians must turn gay. Queerness extends…

who got into a lot of fights and enjoyed stealing things; this didn’t really faze me much because I read about teens in that bandwagon group a LOT in other stories so I was a little iffy on how the story was gonna turn out. I regretted judging the book by some stereotypical…

Louis A. Pérez initiates the academic literature that studies the relationship between America and Cuba, which has shaped the progressing literature currently disseminating within academia and mainstream research regarding American and Cuban encounters. “On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture”, is another Louis A. Pérez production that emphasizes the evolutions and transitions between, above, and below the two countries. The 579-page text is a tedious read, but a thorough history…